Uhuru Orders Clampdown on Clinics Offering Contraceptives to School Girls

President Kenyatta has ordered a crackdown on private clinics and chemists offering emergency contraceptives to underage girls.

Kenyatta tasked county commissioners to coordinate the clampdown within their jurisdictions with immediate effect, according to Education CAS Zack Kinuthia.

Kinuthia said the President considers unscrupulous medical practitioners offering contraceptives to school girls a threat to the government’s fight against teenage pregnancies, abortions, and runaway sexual promiscuity.

“It is not in any Kenyan law that minors access family planning health services since planning is about those in legally recognized marital unions,” Kinuthia said on Tuesday.

“The President has told us that adult males who engage in criminal sex with minors get hiding places in emergency contraceptives, and procure family planning injections and pills for minors, making sexual briefs with them a ‘safe’ lifestyle,” he added.

Injectables, oral, intrauterine, and female voluntary surgical methods, the Norplant, vaginal barriers, and spermicides are the most common types of contraceptives given to minors, Kinuthia added.

“We will rely on our intelligence officers to keep tabs with happenings in the health sector. We will be hard on any county commissioner and his team should we get verifiable reports that minor girls are being given access to family planning services. That will not be acceptable at all costs," said Kinuthia.

Early this month, Uhuru directed the National Crime Research Centre to launch a probe into the high cases of teen pregnancies and “prepare an advisory to our security agencies on remedial action within 30 days from the date hereof and initiate immediate prosecution of all violators.”

A report released last month by the Kenya Health Information System revealed shocking statistics on teen pregnancies in the country. For instance, about 4,000 girls aged below 19 years were reported pregnant in Machakos County alone between March and May this year.

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Haya ndiyo matunda ya…

Imara Daima (not verified) Wed, 07/29/2020 @ 08:27am

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Haya ndiyo matunda ya kutawaliwa. Inafaa kila jitihada yote ifanywe ili wasichana wasipate mimba bila njia yoyote ya kumlea mtoto na kumpa yafaayo kwa mtoto.

Hakuna taasisi yoyote (makanisa au serikali) ambayo ina haki ya kumlazimisha msichana kujikinga kutokana na kupata mimba asiyotaka. Kwa vile ubakaji umeongezeka sana nchini baada ya kupuuza au kupoteza mila zetu za zamani, yafaa kila mwanamke ameze tembe za kuzuia upataji wa mimba iwapo atabakwa na wanaume ambao wamefanya ubakaji kama maisha yao!

Wakati umefika sasa kusimamisha uzaaji wa watoto kwa wazazi ambao hawana njia ya kulea mtoto ifaavyo. Tumefikia kiwango ambacho yafaa kupunguza uzazi hata kwa watu ambao wameoana.

Kwa vile ardhi haiongezeki, yafaa mume na mke wasizae zaidi ya watoto wawili. Umaskini mwingi huletwa kwa kutopanga uzazi.

Ni muhimu kutumia akili yetu 24/7 na kujitahidi kwa kila njia ili kuzuia wasichana wasipate mimba ovyo.

AKILI NI MALI.

This is a head scratcher. …

Guest #13 (not verified) Wed, 07/29/2020 @ 10:18am

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This is a head scratcher. How does denying contraceptives stop pregnancies.

It's time for Revelation and…

Anonymous UI (not verified) Wed, 07/29/2020 @ 10:46am

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It's time for Revelation and Restoration. It's time for Kenyans, Africans and the black man around the world to go back to who he is and curtail dependency on foreign systems that do not benefit him ( black man).
All these problems are as a result of abandoning our cultures, our history, our God and teaching our people foreign education that is not beneficial to our people; following fake masters and fake experts. Not believing in ourselves and our people. Bringing foreigners to our country and allowing them to provide fake services to our people.
The solution is not in more laws, it is in awakening our people to who they are and what they can do for themselves. No law, new or otherwise will solve black man's problem. It has not for more than 400 years, not in Kenya, Africa and not for our brothers and sisters in the Diaspora. Wake up Kenyans!!